CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 41, 3 October 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Brussels, September 30. The news of the death of General Boulanger by his own hands is confirmed. _It appears that the General, accompanied by his niece and secretary, drove to the cemetery, and leaving his companions outside walked up to the tomb of Madame Bonnemain and scattered flowers on- it. All the time he appeared to be in a meditative and gloomy mood, and suddenly drawing a revolver, which he had concealed about him, placed the muzzle close to his head and fired. The bullet entered his right temple, death being instantaneous, and the lifeless body of the General fell across the tomb of Madame Bonnemain, who at her death left a large fortune to Boulanger. Since the death of Madame Bonnemain the General has been inconsolable, and suffered severely from insomnia. October 1. _ Letters and telegrams addressed to his wife and daughter were found on the body of General Boulanger, in which he expressed a desire to die owing to the death of his mistress. A blood-stained photograph of Madame Bonnemain was found next his heart. Paris, October 1. The comments in the Paris press on the General's suicide are halt generous and half contemptuous. Ottawa. September 30. The Dominion Parliament bas prorogued. A Commission is being appointed to reorganise the Civil Service. Mr Evans, a member of the Canadian House of Commons, bas promised not to lend his name to the flouting of companies. San Francisco, September 30. Revelations of a murder which took place in 1887 have been made, and caused considerable excitement, Aa American citizen has confessed that he and six others, in the year mentioned, murdered 24 Chinese miners at Snake Hirer, Wallawalla, in Washington State, and stole sixty thousand dollars worth of gold dust. Pretoria, September, 30. The Boers are highly indignant at the comments made on them and the Transvaal in Lord Randolph Churchill's letters to the Daily Graphic, and he was burnt in effi*y in Pretoria this evening" Madrid, September 30. Secret police are watching the generals quartered in the large cities of Spain, as it ia believed a revolution i 3 being plotted. Berlin, Oceober 2. Captain Kudiger has been appointed Acting Governor of German East Africa, Virnna, October 1* Two nitro glycerine bombs were found under a bridge in the environs of Bei* cheuburg, across with the Fmperor Francis intended driving. The masonry of the bridge was also discovered to be de- j stroyed, and some of the rails had been damaged. The train passed an hour afterwards. London, September 29. The Paris correspondent of the Times says the Russian loan in certain to be subscribed, Tho supremacy of the Rothschilds in the financial world is gone. New Yokk, September 30. The revolt in Guatemala occurred on September 16 on the occasion of the national holiday. Orators who were addressing the people were chased and stoned, and cries were raised of •' Down with Barillas and Government tyranny. . Artillery joined the infantry, and street fighting went on for three days, each party alternately having control of the city. A reign of terror ensued, but after 500 people had been killed, troops came in from the provinces and restored the supremacy of the Government. Martial law was at once proclaimed. Colonel Jabon shot General Sanchez, and the brother of the latter in turn shot Jabon. Barillas ordered the execution of the brotherIt is reported the Government of San Salvador is moving crops to the frontier, and proposes to invate Guatemala in the event of the revolt spreading.